About

House Rules Cafe was founded by Kathleen Miller, a board game enthusiast with over a decade of experience in the food and wine industries. It is located at 757 Columbia St in Hudson, NY, only a block away from some of the best shopping, eating, and cultural experiences in Columbia County. Her minion husband, Joel Holtzman, is the brain behind the membership database (20 years of web development experience) and the Kickstarter video (a course of study at AFI for screenwriting and cinema), as well as providing comic relief.

We welcome everyone to come in and play our curated selection of board games, while enjoying sandwiches, snacks, New England-style frappes and milkshakes, and delicious coffee from Thrive Farmers. Our tea is all looseleaf, from Nepal Tea, LLC.

Hudson is only 45 minutes from Albany, an hour from Poughkeepsie, and is a major stop on the Amtrak Hudson River line, two hours north of New York City. A convenient and lovely place to visit, we recommend the following hotels and B&Bs (in no particular order):

A Halloween classic, “Hocus Pocus” tells the tale of three witches (played by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker) resurrected on Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, and the three children who set out to defeat them.

Our full menu will be available during the showing, including our new fall offerings such as hot mulled cider and a variety of hot cocoas!

In the spirit of the most witchy month of the year, join us for a special Kitchen Witchery workshop with certified community herbalist Aviva Tilson, owner of Apis Apotheca + Farm, a field-to-bottle skincare and elixir company based out of Germantown, NY.As the season is one of mischief not only in the supernatural but also in the bodily realm, this workshop will focus on immune support and cold prevention. Learn how to stir up your very own herbal horehound throat drops over your witches’ cauldron, and make a spicy fire elixir that can nip a cold in the bud! With ticket purchase you will go home with your own herbal throat candies, recipe cards, and container of freshly made fire cider– and hopefully your inner witch awoken!

“What We Do in the Shadows” is a hilarious mockumentary by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, giving an inside look at the daily lives of a group of vampires living together in New Zealand as they’re follwed by a documentary crew for a few months.

“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone!”

Each night this week, we’ll be showing two carefully selected episodes of “The Twilight Zone.” The exact episodes are TBD, but we promise they’ll be great ones!